The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-12-29

DECEMBER 80. 1887.
Pot POurrl Gaxette's Defense Of the
saloon.
The last issue of the Hillsboro Gazette
contained q sickly comic paragraph
entitled "Tale of two Crackers." One
Of the despised crackers seems to have
"spluttered" in the sanctum on the cor.
ner, producing an unusual editorial
activity. The prohibition "cracker is
declared to have "siEzled out" Yet the
Gazette has thought 1t necessary lately TO
pour twelve columns OF diluted drivel-
ing trash upon the .extinguished fuse.
Why 30 "much ado about nothingf"
The Gazette is q recent convert to the
Dow Tax. Behold it in sack.cloth and
ashes, in fact, scraping itself with pot
sherd over the loss of the tax through
the prohibition ordinance.
The Gazette admits that Mr.. Clar < IL
well.informed man, except in not know.
ing that the newspapers are''the greatest
moral teachers Of the age, far out-strip-
ping the pulpit in holding up the morals
of the masses, and teaching the true
religion" (Sic.) On receipt OF marked
copies of the Gazette Spurgeon, Parker,
Brooks, Taylor, Hall, Talmage and Joyce
will resign and go to editing boiler.plate
county papers.
Il appears to be a difficult thing to
discover how much liquor is shipped
into Hillsboro. Indeed 1t is quite be.
yond the power of one or five men to
ind out the amount. Fact, some comes
in innocent-looking -four barrels and
boxes" Yet in spite Of all the difhoultles
in the way of knowing, the saPient edi.
tor knows-knows more than hve men
of course-knows that there Is more
liquor. Who dares to tell Mr.. CLARK
there is less?
The Gazette's magisterial consignment
of the modern preacher to moles and
bats and musty tones is preposterous IN
the extreme. The average preacher Is
very live man with sense, conscience
and q spine. His position does not
''disqualify him from learning the truth: "
Some of the most accurate and vivid
descriptions of cities and countries, were
written by persons who never were
there in person. Preachers don't need
to 20 to saloons in order to tell what
happens in them. A sober preacher u
better qualified to describe the saloon
and its effect, than the drunken habittiS.
In fact, our brother of the Quill seems
Jealous of the preacher, and hints that
on the strength of his "black coat and or
dination, he thinks himself wiser, better
and braver' than an editor-a apital OF.
tense of course. Shame on the p reacher !!
The Gazeste's photograph Of the aver
age "nice young man of Hillsboro, who
attends church, votes for prohibition,
and frowns upon the dirty 0dzstte, but
who visits club rooms, has prescriptions,
gets full in Cincinnati, and visits naughty
places" is either Q lampoon or . like
ness. If the former, it should be resent.
cd, if the latter, all the more need OF
agitation. Such young men are pyramids
to pluck from the burning"
The Gazette with flourish challenges
the world to name thirteen statesmen
who have fallen through drink. They
can be named. But we submit It. That
ID not the true test. Rather name those
who have been ruined on the way to
greatness. Those who would not have
fallen had the gauntlet been less severe
-had social customs been conformed to
the New Testament ideal, in which "the
strong bear the infirmities of the weak. !"
Mourn for the thousAnds slain
The youthful and the strong,
Mourn for the vine cups fearful reign
And The dsludsd thropg.
We have heard of "lying wonders," T"
but the public are now being treated TO
some wondrous lying. The saloons
last resort il "refuge OF lies." Let not
the Select" be deceived.
We forgive them, the preacherG know
ingly they would not mis-state thing.
-Gazeste. How child-like and bland
Under what obligations the preachers
are placed. kiss now and make up!
The pious feelings OF tho Gdzetts were
shocked Sunday evening because "Mr.
Clark closed his bible" Perhaps he
could have kept 1t open and placed II
over against the Gazette thus:
BI1Ls. oAzITrx.
And the Lord God 0inee the fall oi
commanded the man, Adam, eye, since hi
ssying, OF every tres creation, he strongest
ofthc Gsrdsn thou may. dssirscf man's nature
ct freely eat: 10 10 get that vhieh 4
Butof The tree Of the forbidden. Ergo, ,don'i
knoWlsdge Of good and forbid.
evil, 00u shak N0te0-
Gen. H. l6. II.
In spite Of the Almighty's knowledge
that the strongest desire of mans nat.
ure 10 to get thst which u forbidden, y
he forbade Adam, and in 20 doing, In
the logic Of the Gazette, made mistake
In this case, % usual. tho Gassts com.
mits the logical error Of "p-oving too
much" Its reasoning impugnes the wis
dom Of the Deity.
Status UnAer the 0rdlnanee.
10 ne Friends Of Tsmpvancs in Hsllsboro
Grst;sg:
The only law available for the sup
preston Of the saloons in Hillsboro 4
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